can"t send a mov file with outlook

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get some sort of additon error calculating the total and refuses to send, am
i just configured wrong. The kids want to see me play the violin. ps it is a
movie file from my Kodak Camera plays for me fine,just cant send it to
anybody
 
moving violin said:
get some sort of additon error calculating the total and refuses to
send, am
i just configured wrong. The kids want to see me play the violin. ps
it is a
movie file from my Kodak Camera plays for me fine,just cant send it to
anybody
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So how are you attaching it to your e-mail (what steps do you take in
Outlook)? You should be able to just use Tools -> Insert File or click
the Insert toolbar button (paperclip icon) and then select the .mov
file.

The "some sort of addition" error is far too vague for us to know what
you are talking about. Write down what is the error from Outlook when
you attempt to insert (i.e., attach) the file to an e-mail. Also
specify what version of Outlook, whether you are using Word as the
compose editor or the embedded editor in Outlook, and your Windows
version.
 
_Vanguard_ said:
So how are you attaching it to your e-mail (what steps do you take in
Outlook)? You should be able to just use Tools -> Insert File or click
the Insert toolbar button (paperclip icon) and then select the .mov
file.

The "some sort of addition" error is far too vague for us to know what
you are talking about. Write down what is the error from Outlook when
you attempt to insert (i.e., attach) the file to an e-mail. Also
specify what version of Outlook, whether you are using Word as the
compose editor or the embedded editor in Outlook, and your Windows
version.

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Subject: Emailing: 100_1235
Sent: 12/17/2004 11:09 PM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'(e-mail address removed)' on 12/17/2004 11:19 PM
552 5.3.4 Error writing message - a message size of 10242
kilobytes exceeds the size limit of 10240 kilobytes computed for this
transaction
office 2003, windows xp, mesage resieved from System Administator
 
The file you're trying to send is to large to be received by that recipient.
The last line of the error message indicates it 2KB bigger than that persons
ISP will allow.

Try editing the file to make it smaller than 10MB
 
moving violin said:
Subject: Emailing: 100_1235
Sent: 12/17/2004 11:09 PM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'(e-mail address removed)' on 12/17/2004 11:19 PM
552 5.3.4 Error writing message - a message size of 10242
kilobytes exceeds the size limit of 10240 kilobytes computed for this
transaction
office 2003, windows xp, mesage resieved from System Administator
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You are sending the recipient too big a file. Ten megabytes? Not
everyone has e-mail accounts with 100, 250, or 1000 MB of capacity.
E-mail is NOT a file transfer service. Mail servers are throttled to
ensure all connected users get some response. There is no error
recovery in case a byte gets lost. Instead store the file somewhere
online, like on a personal web page, and give a link to it to your
recipient. Your ISP might provide you with personal web page space (my
ISP, Comcast, gives me 250MB per account, and I can have 7 accounts).
Or get a Yahoo account which gives you 15MB for personal web page space
(via Geocities) and 30MB of online disk space (via their Briefcase). Or
get a freebie Xdrive account with 50MB of online storage (don't know if
they offer this anymore). Or do a Google search on online data or file
storage to see what other options are available. Then you recipient
gets a nice small e-mail that doesn't take ages to download (remember
that many if not most users still use dial-up) and can choose if and
when they want to download your file using HTTP for FTP.

You could configure your e-mail client to slice up your overly huge
e-mail into separate messages but there are a couple problems. Some
spam filters will raise their spammy threshold on multipart e-mails
because virus authors might attempt to send multipart e-mails to hide
them from the signature used by anti-virus software. The recipient will
get only as many parts as they have room for in their mailbox's quota
and the rest of your parts will pend until the recipient empties out
their mailbox, but the sending mail server won't pend your messages
forever and will eventually timeout after something line 12, 24, or 36
hours of retrying to send your messages to an unresponsive mailbox
(because you filled it up). Recipients do not appreciate you disabling
their mailbox by consuming its quota.

So find a better way to transfer your huge file. Will it compress at
all? How much? I'm not into .mov (Quicktime) files to know if there
are setting to let the user specify compression versus quality. You
need to make your e-mail smaller. You need to reconsider how the
recipient can retrieve it *if* they want to retrieve it (make their
choice, not yours).
 
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